Chapter III

The fourteenth century—The introduction of
firearms—Romances of Richard Cœur de Lion, Sir
Ferumbras, Roman du roy Miliades Meliadus, and others—The
Froissart plates—Hefner’s _Tratchten_—Carter’s
_Painting and Sculpture_—Froissart’s _Chronicle_—Royal
jousts—Proclamation of tournaments—The issue of
safe-conducts—“Tornies, justes,” etc., forbidden in
1302—Tournament at Condé in 1327—Royal jousts at
Cheapside in 1330—“Great justes” at Dunstable in
1341—Royal tournament at London in 1342—To cry a
tourney—Round Table at Windsor in 1344—Actual Table
at Winchester—Order of the Garter—Jousts to be held
annually at Lincoln—Round Table at Windsor in 1345, and
many jousts at other places—Great wardrobe account—Round
Table at Lichfield—White hoods—Verse from Chaucer’s
“Knight’s Tale”—Romance of Perce Forest—“Kerchief of
pleasance”—“Roiall justes” held in 1358, 1359, and in 1362
—Jousts at Mons and Rennes—Sir Nicholas Dagworth—His
brass in Blickling Church—His armour—Armour of
the Black Prince—Feat of arms at Toury—Tournament
at Cambray in 1385—Duel at Montereau in 1387—Much
jousting with pointed lances between cavaliers of
France and England during the long wars between the two
countries—_Pas d’armes_ at Nantes—Combat _à outrance_
near Vannes—Jousts at Paris in 1385—Realistic tournament
at Paris—Feat of arms at Entença—Deed of arms at
Bordeaux in 1389—Marshal de Boucicaut’s exploits in
the lists—_Pas d’armes_ at St. Ingelbert—The _rôles_
of Tenans and Venants—Monkish chronicles—Royal
tournament at London in 1390—Caxton’s remarks on the
same—Another tournament proclaimed by King Richard
II—The espinette—Body-armour of the fourteenth
century—Crests—The Cap of Maintenance—The shield—Fatal
accident in the lists to the young Earl of Pembroke in
1390—Jousting in Scotland in 1398 23